Nouns denoting natural phenomena
- CMBR
- (cosmology) the cooled remnant of the hot big bang that fills the entire universe and can be observed today with an average temperature of about 2.725 kelvin
- El Nino
- (oceanography) a warm ocean current that flows along the equator from the date line and south off the coast of Ecuador at Christmas time
- parhelic circle
- a luminous halo parallel to the horizon at the altitude of the sun; caused by ice crystals in the atmosphere
- levanter
- an easterly wind in the western Mediterranean area
- nuclear resonance
- the resonance absorption of a gamma ray by a nucleus identical to the nucleus that emitted the gamma ray
- nuclear winter
- a long period of darkness and extreme cold that scientists predict would follow a full-scale nuclear war; a layer of dust and smoke in the atmosphere would cover the earth and block the rays of the sun; most living organisms would perish
- languor
- oppressively still air
- moment of a magnet
- the torque exerted on a magnet or dipole when it is placed in a magnetic field
- hot weather
- a period of unusually high temperatures
- mutual induction
- generation of electromotive forces in each other by two adjacent circuits
- vitelline circulation
- circulation of blood between the embryo and the yolk sac
- North Equatorial Current
- an equatorial current that flows west across the Pacific just north of the equator
- resting potential
- the potential difference between the two sides of the membrane of a nerve cell when the cell is not conducting an impulse
- southwester
- a strong wind from the southwest
- color force
- (physics) the interaction that binds protons and neutrons together in the nuclei of atoms; mediated by gluons
- interfacial tension
- surface tension at the surface separating two non-miscible liquids
- doldrums
- a belt of calms and light winds between the northern and southern trade winds of the Atlantic and Pacific
- chaos
- the formless and disordered state of matter before the creation of the cosmos
- strong gale
- wind moving 47-54 knots; 9 on the Beaufort scale
- polar front
- the front of an advancing mass of colder air
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